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Sphingidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
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<i>in</i> Sonnini’s Buffon, <i>Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins.</i>, <b>3</b>: 400
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Sphingidae

Name

Synonyms
Cocytiidae
Homonyms
Sphingidae
Common names
Aftensværmere in Danish
hawk moths in English
hornworms in English
pijlstaarten in Dutch
sphinx moths in English
svärmare in Swedish
tussmørkesvermarar in Nynorsk, Norwegian
tussmørkesvermere in Norwegian Bokmål
Hawk-moth in English
hawk moths in English
pijlstaarten in Dutch
seabhag-lèomann in Scottish Gaelic
seabhagan-lèomann in Scottish Gaelic

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Elmquist, H., Liljeberg, G., Top-Jensen, M. & Fibiger, M. (2013-10-09 00:00:00) Sveriges fjärilar - En fälthandbok över Sveriges samtliga dag- och nattfjärilar. Østermarie 2011. 749 pp.
  4. Fauna Europaea (2014-02-18 00:00:00) Fauna Europaea, v. 2.6.2: http://www.faunaeur.org/
  5. Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2011-02-09 00:00:00) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer).
  6. Hydén, Jilg & Östman (2016-01-07 00:00:00) Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna. Fjärilar: Ädelspinnare–tofsspinnare. Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae-Lymantriidae.
  7. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 41 Addition to the Official List of family- group names in Zoology or, as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and invalid family-group names in Zoology of the family-group names Involved in volume 11 of the Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological nomenclature, other than family-group names already dealt with in those Opinions.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 11(30), 431-452 (1956)
  8. Kitching, I.J. (2016-01-07 00:00:00) Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory. Online: http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/
  9. Kitching, Ian J., and Jean-Marie Cadiou, 2000: null. Hawkmoths of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Revisionary Checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). 226.
  10. Latreille, P.A. (2016-01-07 00:00:00) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complete d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C.S. Sonnini
  11. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  12. Tuttle, James P., 2007: null. The Hawk Moths of North America: A Natural History Study of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada. 253.
  13. van Nieukerken, E. J.; Kaila, L.; Kitching, I. J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Lees, D. C.; et al. (2011). Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 212-221.
  14. van Nieukerken, E. J.; Kaila, L.; Kitching, I. J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Lees, D. C.; et al. (2011). Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 212-221.
  15. van Nieukerken, E. J.; Kaila, L.; Kitching, I. J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Lees, D. C.; et al. (2011). Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 212-221.
  16. van Nieukerken, E. J.; Kaila, L.; Kitching, I. J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Lees, D. C.; et al. (2011). Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 212-221.
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